May 15
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1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was established by President Abraham Lincoln on this day.1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. began under the direction of the Post Office Department, a forerunner of the United States Postal Service.
1926 - The New York Rangers became the newest franchise to be awarded by the National Hockey League. Two years later, the Rangers won their first Stanley Cup.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first stewardess for an airline. Church served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and Cheyenne, Wyoming on Boeing Air Transport (later known as United Air Lines). She also served chicken, fruit salad and rolls. The term ‘stewardess’ has since been banished. The men and women who serve on airlines worldwide are known as flight attendants. Remember, the exits are clearly marked and life support cushions are located beneath the web site. We’ll begin beverage service in a few moments. Please stay in your seat with your belt securely fastened and your tray table in the upright, locked position...
1933 - Irna Phillips, an NBC Blue network program-features writer, starred in the role of Mother Moran in the radio program, Today’s Children, which was heard for the first time this day.
1938 - Guy Lombardo and his orchestra recorded Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride, the group’s last side for Victor Records. Lombardo took disc number 25861 and moved the Royal Canadians over to Decca Records to make “the sweetest sound this side of heaven.”
1940 - Nylon hose went on sale at stores throughout the United States.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major-league hitting streak (56 games). The New York Yankees got Joltin’ Joe off to a rather bad start, however, as they lost to the Chicago White Sox 13-1 at Yankee Stadium.
1942 - World War II gasoline rationing went into effect in seventeen eastern U.S. states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for nonessential vehicles. Nationwide rationing went into effect in Dec 1942.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1953 - World heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano collected his 44th pro boxing victory on this night, knocking out former champ, Jersey Joe Walcott, at Chicago Stadium in 2 minutes, 25 seconds of the first round.
1955 - The Vienna Treaty, signed by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, restored Austria’s independence.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean. The test program was known as Operation Grapple.
1962 - After five years on Wagon Train, Robert Horton let his performing contract expire and left the popular TV series. Robert Fuller replaced Horton as the trail scout who rode with wagon master Chris Hale, played by actor John McIntire.
1963 - U.S. astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7, piloted by Major L. Gordon Cooper, on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program. It completed 22.5 orbits.
1969 - The White House Press Office released a letter of resignation from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas to U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Fortas had resigned because of scandal over the fact that he had done business with jailed financier Louis Wolfson.
1970 - Close to You, the Carpenters’ second album and the one that launched them to meteoric fame, was released by A&M Records. The title song, (They Long to Be) Close to You, became a pop music standard and the first of six million-sellers in a row for Karen and Richard. In all, The Carpenters would have 10 gold records for singles and a dozen top ten hits to their credit. The duo won Best New Artist honors at the Grammy Awards in 1971.
1972 - Glen Campbell earned a gold record for his Greatest Hits album on this day.
1972 - Democratic presidential candidate George C. Wallace was shot and paralyzed while campaigning in Maryland. Arthur Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison for the shooting.
1973 - The first issue of Playgirl magazine went on sale. 600,000 copies were sold.
1981 - Len Barker, the 25-year-old pitching sensation of the Cleveland Indians, became the tenth major-league hurler to toss a perfect game. Barker led the Indians past the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-0. Barker was absolutely perfect in this game: no runs, no hits, no walks, no visits to the mound by the manager and no stray hot-dog wrappers on the field.
1985 - Prince Michael of Moldavia and Amanda Carrington tied the knot in wedded bliss on the nighttime soap opera, Dynasty. The series was canceled shortly after the wedding and Joan Collins says she hasn’t gotten a letter or anything from the couple.
1986 - American journalist Theodore H. White (The Making of the President...) died at age 71.
1986 - 7-year-old Francis Bok was kidnapped when Arabs from a government-armed militia swept into his village in Sudan, shooting the men and cutting off their heads with swords. Bok did manage to escape -- but not until ten years later.
1988 - Carrie, the musical adaption of Stephen King’s novel about a troubled teenager with telekinetic powers, closed in New York after a brief run. It was one of the most expensive flops in Broadway history, losing $8 million.
1989 - Composer Johnny Green died in Beverly Hills, California. He was 80 years old. Green won Oscars for his scores of Easter Parade, An American in Paris, West Side Story and Oliver!. He also won an Oscar for producing the short subject The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture. Green was a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and composed such standards as Body and Soul, Out of Nowhere and I Cover the Waterfront.
1990 - Ryoei Saito bid a record $82.5 million at an auction for Van Gogh’s 1890 Portrait of Dr. Gachet. Two days later, the Japanese millionaire spent a record $78.1 million for Renoir’s 1876 Au Moulin De La Galette.
1993 - Prairie Bayou won the 119th Preakness in 1:56.6.
1993 - The Alamodome, a 65,000 seat, multi-purpose facility used as a domed football, basketball, baseball stadium and convention center, opened in San Antonio, Texas.
1995 - Dow Corning Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing potentially astronomical expenses from liability lawsuits over the company’s silicone breast implants.
1996 - Republican Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Bill Clinton for the U.S. presidency full-time.
1997 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1998 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Horse Whisperer, starring (and directed by) Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill and Dianne Wiest; and Quest for Camelot, with Jessalyn Gilsig, Andrea Corr, Cary Elwes, Bryan White, Gary Oldman, Don Rickles, Eric Idle, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, 2001 - It was a great show on all of the cable TV news networks: A runaway freight train Sir John Gielgud, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White and Gabriel Byrne.
1999 - Kentucky Derby winner Charismatic won the 124th Preakness, finishing 1 1/2 lengths ahead of Menifee.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a key provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, saying that rape victims could not sue their attackers in federal court.
2001 - It was a great show on all of the cable TV news networks: A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one on board. A railroad employee finally jumped onto the locomotive as it slowed for on grade and brought the train to a stop.
2002 - The Swiss National Exhibition, Expo.02, opened. The $823 million production, scattered around three lakes and four towns, ran through Oct 20.
2003 - The Matrix Reloaded debuted in the U.S. The sci-fi action thriller sequel to the The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Matt McColm, Jada Pinkett Smith, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson, Harold Perrineau Jr., Harry J. Lennix, Clayton Watson, Daniel Bernhardt and Christine Anu.
2003 - June Carter Cash died of complications from heart surgery. The Grammy-winning wife of singer Johnny cash was 73 years old.
2004 - A steel bridge girder collapsed on I-70 near Golden, CO, sheering off the top of an SUV killing its three passengers.
2004 - Kentucky Derby winner Smarty Jones won the 129th Preakness by a record 11 1/2 lengths.
2006 - In the Saddam Hussein trial, the chief judge formally charged Hussein with crimes against humanity, including torture of women and children, murder and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. A defiant Saddam refused to enter a plea.
2007 - Jerry Falwell died at 73 years of age. He was the TV minister who started the Moral Majority in 1979, galvanizing American religious conservatives into a political force.
2007 - Reuters agreed to a $17.2-billion takeover by the Thomson family of Canada. The combined company would make Reuters the world’s largest financial data and news provider. (The deal was confirmed by the companies on May 21, 2007.)
2008 - The California Supreme Court affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry.
2008 - CBS Corp. announced its purchase of CNet Networks, an Internet technology news provider, for $1.8 billion in cash.
2009 - New motion pictures in U.S. theatres: Angels & Demons, starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Armin Mueller-Stahl; and The Big Shot-Caller, starring David Rhein, Marlene Rhein, Laneya Wiles, Leslie Eva Glaser, Robert Costanzo and Rodney Lopez.
2009 - General Motors said it planned to eliminate 1,100 of 6,000 showrooms in an effort to boost profits by lessening competition among dealers.
2010 - Oil leaking from the ruptured BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico continued washing ashore. This, as BP’s latest attempt to contain the spill faltered. Experts warned that the spill was growing more than ten times faster than previous Coast Guard estimates of 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) a day.
2010 - 16-year-old Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail around the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted. Watson cruised into Sydney Harbor, Australia in her pink, 34-foot (10m) yacht to a rock-star welcome of thousands.
2011 - A one dog per family policy went into effect in Beijing, China. It was a government effort to gain control over the soaring pet population and to curb rabies.
2012 - Former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others were charged by British prosecutors in their phone-hacking inquiry. Brooks was editor of the News of the World when illegal phone hacking -- the intercepting of mobile phone messages of celebrities, politicians and other public figures -- was allegedly carried out by the newspaper.
2013 - Becoming Traviata opened in the U.S. The musical documentary features Natalie Dessay, Louis Langrée, Matthew Polenzani and Jean-François Sivadier.
2013 - Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto fired Humberto Benítez Treviño, the head of its consumer protection agency. It seems Treviño’s daughter got inspectors to shut down a Mexico City bistro that didn’t give her the table she wanted.
2014 - A federal judge in Las Vegas, Nevada imposed a 20-year prison sentence on 22-year-old David Camez for his role in an international cybercrime enterprise known as Carder.su. In addition, he was ordered to pay $20,000,000 in damages. (Camez was already serving a seven-year term in Arizona for similar crimes.) Authorities said it was an unprecedented criminal case with hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims. The U.S. federal investigation discovered that members of the Carder.su organization, known as ‘carders’, were involved in large scale trafficking of compromised credit card account data and counterfeit IDs and credit cards, as well as money laundering, narcotics trafficking and various other types of computer crimes.
2015 - The list of movies opening in the U.S. on this day included: Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult; Pitch Perfect 2, with Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Hailee Steinfeld; Absolution, starring Steven Seagal, Byron Mann and Josh Barnett; Animals, with David Dastmalchian, Kim Shaw and John Heard; Every Secret Thing, starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning; Good Kill, with January Jones, Zoë Kravitz and Bruce Greenwood; I’ll See You in My Dreams, with Blythe Danner, Martin Starr and Sam Elliott; Our Man in Tehran, with Bob Anders, Joe Clark and William Daugherty; Pound of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Darren Shahlavi and John Ralston; Slow West, with Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn and Rory McCann; Time Lapse, starring Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary and George Finn; Where Hope Grows, with Danica McKellar, Kerr Smith and William Zabka.
2015 - China and India proposed fresh measures to stabilize their border during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China. India’s Defense Minister, Manohar Parrikar, had ordered a mountain strike force reduced to 25,000-30,000 strong, from the initially planned 90,000 troops.
2015 - 63-year-old Washington DC rabbi Bernard ‘Barry’ Freundel, who admitted to setting up cameras and spying on women as they prepared for Jewish ritual baths, was sentenced to more than six years in prison. The sentencing came at the end of a three-hour hearing in which more than a dozen women told the court of the emotional impact they endured because of Freundel’s abuse of his position of trust. Judge Alprin sentenced Freundel to 45 days in prison for each of the 52 victims, calling his actions “a classic abuse of power and violation of trust.”
2016 - German police arrested some 100 people demonstrating against coal mining in eastern Germany. Protests, held over two weeks in countries including the U.S., U.K., Australia, South Africa and Indonesia, saw activists call for oil, coal and gas to be kept in the ground. A coalition of environment groups, which called the actions Break Free, pushed for a complete shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
2017 - Italian police arrested 68 people, including a priest and the head of a Catholic volunteer group called Mercy, accusing them of being in cahoots with a major mafia clan that skimmed millions in public funds destined for one of Italy's biggest migrant welcome centers. accusing them of being in cahoots with a major mafia clan that had skimmed millions in public funds destined for one of Italy’s biggest migrant welcome centers.
2018 - Facebook announced that it had pulled or placed warnings on nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech -- in the first three months of 2018.
2019 - POTUS Trump granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who had written a flattering 2018 political biography of Trump: Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other. Black was convicted of fraud (in 2007) and had served 3½ years in prison.
2019 - In New York City, Christie’s auctioned a 1986 stainless steel sculpture of Rabbit, by Jeff Koons, for over $91 million -- the most expensive (to that date) work sold at auction by a living artist.
2020 - Films with May 15, 2020 U.S. release dates (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis): Blood and Money, starring Tom Berenger, Kristen Hager and Paul Ben-Victor; The Last Beyond, with Chris Snyder, Jolene Andersen and Noah Watts; and Sex and the Future, starring Kristel Elling, Janet Lopez and Ellie Patrikios.
2020 - Defense Department officials presented POTUS Trump with the U.S. Space Force flag. The dark blue and white flag includes elements intended to evoke the vast recesses of outer space.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)Hologic Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 diagnostic test that can provide initial results in about three hours and process more than 1,000 tests in 24 hours.
2)French nurses and doctors faced off with President Emmanuel Macron at a Paris hospital, demanding better pay and a rethink of a once-renowned public health system that found itself quickly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of coronavirus patients.
3)Mexico’s health ministry confirmed 290 additional coronavirus deaths and 2,437 new infections in a one-day record rise in cases. Confirmed cases numbered 45,032 and 4,767 deaths in total. Some 800 Cuban doctors had arrived to help in Mexico City.2021 - Rombauer won the Preakness Stakes, ending a controversial Triple Crown bid by Medina Spirit, who had failed a drug test after the Kentucky Derby.
2021 - Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and the late Kobe Bryant were inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.
2022 - The Pittsburgh Pirates won 1-0 over Cincinnati Reds, despite getting no hits in the game. The Pirates eked out that run in the bottom of the eighth inning on three walks and a groundout.
2022 - British rock band, The Who, returned to Cincinnati for the first time since the tragic 1979 stampede that killed 11 concert goers. On Dec 3 that year 11 people were killed in a mad scramble by thousands of fans trying to get into Riverfront Coliseum.
2023 - Martha Stewart became the oldest-ever Sports Illustrated cover model -- at 81 years of age. Stewart appeared as as part of SI’s swimsuit issue.
2023 - Gasoline was more than $1 cheaper than a year earlier (when prices were near $5 a gallon). The U.S. average was $3.53 a gallon, according to AAA.
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Birthdays on This Day May 15
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum
newspaperman, author: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; died May 6, 1919
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer: Collected Short Stories [1965]; Ship of Fools; died Sep 18,19801902 - Richard Joseph Daley
‘The Boss’: politician: former mayor of Chicago; died Dec 20, 19761904 - Clifton Fadiman
critic, editor, radio host: Information Please; TV host: What’s in a Word; died Jun 20, 19991905 - Joseph (Cheshire) Cotten
actor: Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Duel in the Sun, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Tora Tora Tora, The Philadelphia Story, Once More with Feeling; died Feb 6, 19941909 - James (Neville) Mason
actor: A Star is Born, Georgy Girl, The Verdict, The Boys from Brazil, Charade, The Desert Fox, Island in the Sun, Jesus of Nazareth, North by Northwest, Lolita; died July 27, 19841910 - Constance Cummings (Halverstadt)
Tony Award-winning actress: Wings; Blithe Spirit, Busman’s Honeymoon; died Nov 23, 20051911 - Max (Rudolf) Frisch
author: Homo Faber, I’m Not Stiller, Juerg Reinhardt; playwright: The Firebugs, Andorra; died Apr 4, 19911914 - Walter ‘Turk’ Broda
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL Vezina Trophy [1941, 1948, 1951]: Toronto Maple Leafs, goaltender for five Stanley Cup wins; died Oct 17, 19721918 - Eddy (Richard Edward) Arnold
‘The Tennessee Plowboy’: Country Music Hall of Famer: Make the World Go Away, Kentucky Waltz, The Last Word in Lonesome is Me, I Want to Go with You, I Wouldn’t Know Where to Begin, Bouquet of Roses; TV host; died May 8, 20081918 - Joseph Wiseman
actor: Dr. No, Detective Story, Viva Zapata!, The Garment Jungle, The Night They Raided Minsky’s, The Valachi Papers, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Broadway: King Lear, Golden Boy, Uncle Vanya; died Oct 19, 20091923 - Richard Avedon
photographer: famous for his 1960s and ’70s ‘up-against-the-wall’ pictures of celebrities and politicians; died Oct 1, 20041923 - Ellis Larkins
pianist: favorite accompanist of: Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams; died Sep 29, 20021930 - Jasper Johns
sculptor, painter: Flag, Face with Watch, After Holbein, Grey Numbers1931 - Ken Venturi
World Golf Hall of Famer: U.S. Open champ [1964]; won 14 events on the PGA Tour; color commentator & lead analyst for CBS Sports [1967-2002]; died May 17, 20131932 - John Glen
film director: The Avengers [TV series], On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Murphy’s War, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti
singer, Tony Award-winning actress: Carnival [1962]; Cinderfella1936 - Paul Zindel
writer: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds; died Mar 27, 20031937 - Madeleine Albright
U.S. Secretary of State [1997-2000: first woman to serve in that position]; U.S. representative to United Nations [1993-1997]; died Mar 23, 20221937 - Trini López
singer: If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree, I’m Comin’ Home Cindy; actor: The Dirty Dozen; died Aug 11, 20201938 - Lenny Welch
singer: Since I Fell for You, Ebb Tide, Breaking Up is Hard to Do1939 - Dudley Wysong
golf: two-time winer on PGA Tour; vice president: PGA of America; died Mar 29, 19981940 - Lainie Kazan
singer, actress: Beaches, My Favorite Year1940 - Don Nelson
basketball [forward]: NBA: Chicago Zephyrs [1962–1963], Los Angeles Lakers [1963–1965], Boston Celtics [1965–1976]; coach [most wins of any coach in NBA history: 1,335]: Milwaukee Bucks [1976–1987], Golden State Warriors [1988–1995], New York Knicks [1995–1996], Dallas Mavericks [1997–2005], Golden State Warriors [2006–2010]1941 - K.T. Oslin
singer: LPs: 80s Ladies, This Woman, New Way Home, Love in a Small Town, My Roots Are Showing; died Dec 21, 2020
1943 - David Cronenberg
director: Crash, M Butterfly, Dead Ringers, The Fly, Dead Zone, Fast Company, They Came from Within1945 - Jerry Quarry
boxer: heavyweight champ: record: 53-9-4, 33 KO’s1946 - Rod Coombes
musician: drums: group: Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle with You1947 - Graeham Goble
musician: guitar: group: Little River Band: It’s a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me1948 - Brian Eno (Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno)
musician: synthesizer: Roxy Music [cofounder]; record producer: Seven Deadly Finns; songwriter [w/David Bowie]: Once in a Lifetime1948 - Kathleen Sebelius
politician: governor of Kansas [2003-2009]; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services [2009-2014]1950 - Nicholas Hammond
actor: The Sound of Music, The Amazing Spider-Man, Lord of the Flies, Skyjacked, The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Paradise Road, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, The Rage in Placid Lake, The Saviour, Stealth, MDA, Climb Every Mountain1951 - Wally Chambers
football: Chicago Bears [Pro Bowl: 1974]1951 - Dennis ‘Fergie’ Fredericksen aka David London
singer: groups: Toto, Trillion, LeRoux; died Jan 18, 20141952 - Chazz Palminteri
actor: A Bronx Tale, The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway, Boss of Bosses, Dr. Vegas, Kojak, Rizzoli & Isles, Modern Family, Blue Bloods, Just Like Mona, Poolhall Junkies, Down to Earth, Analyze This, Hurlyburly, Mulholland Falls, Faithful; more1953 - George (Howard) Brett
Baseball Hall of Famer: Kansas City Royals [all-star: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988/World Series: 1980, 1985/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1980], 1980 batting average: .3901953 - Pat Hickey
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques, SL Blues1953 - Mike Oldfield
composer, musician: Tubular Bells; film score: Killing Fields1955 - Lee Horsley
actor: Paradise, Matt Houston, Wind on Water, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Unlawful Passage, French Silk, Danielle Steele’s Palomino, Sword & the Sorcerer, Nero Wolfe, Hawkeye, North and South, Book II, Bodies of Evidence1956 - Dan Patrick
TV sports commentator: ESPN SportsCenter; The Dan Patrick Show [Premiere Radio Net, NBC Sports Net]; more1964 - Dave Reid
hockey [right wing]: Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche
1965 - Dan Stryzinski
football [punter]: Univ of Indiana; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Atlanta Falcons, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets1967 - Madhuri Dixit
Indian film actress hailed as one of the best in Bollywood: Tezaab, Dil, Saajan, Beta, Khalnayak, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, Raja, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mrityudand, Pukar, Lajja, Devdas, Aaja Nachle1967 - John Smoltz
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves [1988-2009]; St. Louis Cardinals [2009]1969 - Emmitt Smith
football [running back]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Dallas Cowboys [1990–2002]: 1993 Super Bowl XXVII champs, 1994 Super Bowl XXVIII champs, 1996 Super Bowl XXX champs; Arizona Cardinals [2003–2004]1970 - Desmond Howard
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers [MVP of Super Bowl XXXI], Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions1970 - Rod Smith
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Missouri; NFL: Denver Broncos [1994–2008]: 1998 Super Bowl XXXII champs, 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII champs1971 - Sarah Hadland
actress: Quantum of Solace, Magicians, Leap Year, Learners, Moving Wallpaper, Miranda, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep Show, Horrible Histories, The Job Lot, Brotherhood1972 - David Charvet
actor: Melrose Place, Baywatch, Meet Prince Charming, The Perfect Teacher1974 - Chris O’Sullivan
hockey: Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Anaheim Mighty Ducks; director of O’Sullivan Hockey school1975 - Ray (Anthony) Lewis Jr.
football: Univ of Miami; All-Pro NFL linebacker: Baltimore Ravens [1996–2012]: 2001 Super Bowl XXXV champs, 2013 Super Bowl XLVII champs
1978 - David Krumholtz
actor: Numb3rs, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2, Serenity1980 - Josh Beckett
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins [2001–2005]: 2003 World Series champs; Boston Red Sox [2006–2012]: 2007 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2012–2014]1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler
actress: The Sopranos, Son of Mourning, Dark Ride, Homie Spumoni, Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, The Gathering, Campfire Stories, Entourage1982 - Alexandra Breckenridge
actress: Dirt, The Ex List; American Horror Story: Murder House/Coven, The Walking Dead, She’s the Man, The Bridge to Nowhere, Ticket Out, True Blood; voice actress: Family Guy; pro photographer1982 - Jessica Sutta
singer: group: the Pussycat Dolls; solo: I Wanna Be Bad, Show Me, Again1987 - Andy Murray
tennis champ: 2012, 2016 Olympic gold medalist; won 2012 U.S. Open: first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament; 2013 British Open1990 - Stella Maxwell
fashion model: featured in ad campaigns for H&M, Urban Outfitters, Puma, Ermanno Scervino; seen in photo shoots for Glamour, Elle, Vogue magazines
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Hit Music on This Day May 15
1952Blue Tango (facts) - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Kiss of Fire (facts) - Georgia Gibbs
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